Example sentences for: candor

How can you use “candor” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • McCain has "courage and candor," Fund writes.

  • Part of it, I think, beyond his much-remarked-upon candor or campaign-finance support is the fact that he's so at peace about Vietnam--unlike the rest of the country.

  • "Candor" and "accuracy" are apparently not synonymous.

  • Synonyms for truth telling are formal and dull: candor , honesty , veridity . Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .

  • In World War II, the need for a general-purpose vehicle was satisfied with the development of a means of transportation referred to by the government with astonishing directness and candor as a general-purpose vehicle . The army, quick to abbreviate everything, began to refer to the vehicle as a g.p.


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